Chapter 679: Planning
When Hell's Kitchen's community school opened, everyone's lives were starting to get back on track. Vertex Says X 23 U OM
Stark Group took the initiative to undertake the renovation of the docklands, and began to recruit a large number of temporary construction personnel, which made Hell's Kitchen seem to prosper a lot.
After all, this is a huge project, and a lot of infrastructure is needed in the huge dock area with a radius of several kilometers, which requires a lot of construction personnel.
The recent looming turmoil caused by yakuza layoffs seems to have been eliminated.
Stark invested a huge amount of money and took over the overall renovation of the docklands with a moderate attitude.
But he only retains the property rights to his convention center, and the rest of the investment will be used as a charitable investment regardless of return.
The reason is that the docklands have the interests of most of the gangs in Hell's Kitchen, and the renovated docklands will not actually make them happy if they fall into the hands of the Stark group.
Because if the property rights of the newly built docklands are in the hands of the Stark Group, many of their illegal businesses will have to change positions.
So what's the point of this dockland? Stark Group cannot lease its property to gangsters to carry out illegal activities.
In fact, for Stark Group, the value of this dockland is really not large, and it is not possible to change the properties to develop real estate, how much money can be made by building a warehouse?
Now that Pepper is working on this project as a charity under Alvin's influence, and the property rights of the docklands are still in the hands of the city government, so that the Hello Me Hello Hello Everyone's approach will definitely be supported by everyone.
The city government was happy and completed the largest reconstruction project without spending a penny.
Stark Group has a reputation, and the money is not spent much.
The fact that the gangsters are not harmed will keep them quiet, otherwise they will have no other way to make up for the loss of a perfect storage and trading ground than to find someone to fight and expand their territory. After all, every street in Hell's Kitchen now has an owner, which one can you sacrifice?
In this way, the police are also happy, and the gangs are quiet, aren't the police happy?
Pepper sat in the booth at Alvin's restaurant and took stock of the benefits of her move, and she was surprised to find that maybe in the next five years, Stark Group might not spend much money but would have the most rewards.
This was not possible with the Stark Group in the past, where the giants didn't care what other people thought, as long as I didn't break the law, or broke the law slightly, I could do whatever I wanted.
Input and then output is the business model that everyone agrees on.
This kind of investment, which everyone is happy about, was unthinkable in the past with Stark Group, and this kind of thing is not even necessary to be discussed in the board of directors.
What now? Stark Group has experienced several upheavals, Stark has cleared all opposition voices, and the second-largest shareholder, S.H.I.E.L.D., has habitually remained silent, which has made Stark, or Pepper, the greatest power.
Pepper didn't bother to do it, and then found that this kind of "charity project" that took care of everyone was really a very good project.
Reputation aside, the tax incentives from year to year are also a lot of money.
The main thing is that, in Alvin's words, the government can't watch a socially responsible company make a "philanthropic investment" without a little return afterwards, right?
Look at what Stark Group needs to get from the government, as long as it's not something particularly excessive, let's just "quote", how happy?
Pepper drank coffee and recalled the mayor's "frightened" eyes when he was "discussing" with Donald Depp in the city hall, and the feeling of "playing hooligan" made Pepper feel both exciting and a little shy!
In the past, this kind of "obscene" thing was usually done by special people, but now Pepper has personally operated it and found that "blackmail" is actually really interesting!
Alvin was sitting on the edge of the bar chatting with Raymond when he saw Pepper with a strange expression and shook his head a little amusedly.
The girl who has been sitting at the top of the pyramid may not have realized that the biggest help of their "charity project" is actually the provision of a large number of jobs, which is really important for Hell's Kitchen now.
Raymond pinched the bridge of his nose a little tiredly, he had dealt with the people at Harvard in the past few days, and then he went to negotiate with the people in the city government according to Alvin's request at that time.
Alvin promised those who would fight their way forward in the event of a demonic invasion to give them a chance to make a home here and live with dignity.
"Donald Depp is very cooperative, and the prices of those government apartments are very "reasonable"!
Alexei and Pluto will take over the distribution of those apartments at a later stage, and these bastards earned it this time.
Hell's Kitchen home prices have risen faster than the Nasdaq has fallen lately, and these guys have made 50% of their profits without doing anything. ”
Alvin poured Raymond a glass of wine with satisfaction, then raised his glass and touched it with him, and said with a smile, "Thank you, you have done a good thing here." ”
Raymond picked the corner of his eye, tilted his neck and thanked Alvin very unceremoniously, and then said with a smile: "Don't forget, I'm also a resident here, and the house I just bought is being renovated, just down the street next door." ”
Saying that, Raymond took a sip of whiskey and said with some emotion: "It's really not easy to find your place here!" ”
Alvin glanced at the tired Raymond and said with a smile: "But it's not difficult, I used to think that you wouldn't stay here for long, because it is really difficult for foreign poisonous snakes to find a place here "without bleeding".
That's not something I can do by saying, "Welcome to Hell's Kitchen."
You're doing a great job right now, if you just want to get a foothold here, you did. ”
Raymond glanced at Alvin thoughtfully, squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, and said, "Sounds like you have something else to do?"
If I say now that I want to go back to sleep, will my previous "efforts" be in vain? ”
Alvin was stunned for two seconds, then looked at the old viper, and said with a smile: "No, I do have some things that I would like to "consult", but if you don't feel like getting involved, well, then I wish you a good night's sleep!" ”
Raymond nodded contentedly, this is what he wants, he is here to take refuge, but he is definitely not here to be a slave.
Everything I did before was my own will, and that helped me a lot. But if you're forced to do something, it doesn't feel like that.
"If it's convenient for you, you can tell me, but I can't guarantee that I can agree, I hope you can understand."
Alvin nodded indifferently and said, "Stark wants to use a team of robots to solve the demon problem in the Middle East, and even if possible, he wants to restore stability to the society there." ”
As he spoke, Alvin poured himself and Raymond another glass of whiskey, and said, "I don't understand international politics, but I know it's going to be hard and it will take time."
You're an expert on this, and I'd like to hear from you! ”
Raymond didn't expect Alvin to ask such a question, he folded his hands on his chin and thought for a few minutes, then looked at Alvin who was very patient, and said, "It's definitely not difficult to deal with those demons, and I even have a way to get some support for you."
But it is very difficult to help those countries restore stability, where the interests are so concentrated that many people are waiting for the complete collapse of those countries in order to go in and snatch the fruits of victory.
The main thing is that your demands are contrary to those of the big guys, and it is difficult for you to get enough space.
And how do you guarantee that people there will look at you with kindness?
Half of the instability there is caused by those who have been nurtured locally.
Maybe in the end, in the eyes of those people, you are no different from everyone else. ”
Alvin waved his hand indifferently and said with a smile: "I understand what you said, we just want to do something, the minimum standard is to get rid of the harassment of demons there."
As for Stark's ideals, I hope we can do our best, and the results don't matter in that matter.
We do ours, and the choice is up to those there.
When most of the people there get bored, we get out of there! ”
Saying that, Alvin looked at Raymond and said seriously: "But before that, we need to eliminate external interference. So I'd like to hear your opinion! ”
Raymond looked at Alvin with amusement, and said with some emotion: "I didn't expect you to have the idea of being a savior!"
There is no such thing as mere beauty in this world, and if you enter there with the mindset of doing charity, I guess you will end up with "nothing". ”
Saying that, Raymond stopped what Alvin wanted to say with a smile, he shook his head with a strange expression, and said with a smile: "I know that's definitely not what you think, I'm just curious, why is Stark so "immature"?
Didn't he know that as an inventor and developer of new energy, it was impossible for him to find friends in the Middle East? ”
Alvin shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "He definitely didn't want to make friends there, maybe it's because of people like Stark that this world is so exciting."
Nothing is certain or necessarily how it should be, and you don't try to know if you can break the mold.
Winning or losing is not so important to us, we just need to achieve the minimum goal and then try for the best possible result. ”
Raymond pursed his lips and thought for a moment, shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's Stark's luck to have a friend like you.
Let's hope Stark thinks the same way! ”
Raymond took a sip of whiskey, and then said in a deep voice: "The one in charge of Middle East affairs is a vice president, he is a representative of a large interest group, and he is an ally of the CIA, and it will take some unconventional means to get him to look away from there." ”
Alvin looked at Raymond with a smile, he knew that this guy had promised to help.
Now I just need to listen to his plan, and it is ideal to leave professional things to professional people.
Raymond was pleased with Alvin's attitude, he smiled and dipped his finger in a little wine to draw a circle on the bar, and said, "This is the vice presidential camp." ”
Then he drew another circle and said with a smile: "This is the camp of his political enemies."
I'm going to find a way to create a little bit of irreconcilable conflict for them, which is not that difficult at this point in time.
But there's only a limit to the amount of time I can buy, or~"
Alvin waved his hand to stop Raymond's next words, and said, "There is no need to kill him, and I will not do it, he is not my enemy, and the people of the Middle East are not my friends."
This kind of thing wants to be solved by killing people, and I guess only extremists do that. ”
Saying that, Alvin looked at Raymond and said with a smile: "This matter should be limited to their game."
We just have to drag them down, like find some scandal or something, and that's the good thing about America, people are keen on these scandals.
As for how long it can be delayed, it depends on how noble the Vice-President is.
I guess it's going to be a long time, am I right? ”
Raymond nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, you have the final say!"
I kind of know what to do, I like to do things this way, it's a bit of a hassle, but I like the technical work.
I don't know when death became the main theme of this struggle, it's really not a good habit! ”
Alvin smiled and nodded, and said, "Then pick up this good habit."
You're a poisonous snake, this is in line with your personality, haha! ”